Assortment of birds

[Copy_Kot]

Until today, I had no idea female cardinals would fight with each other… I saw two really going at it.



I tried to get a good shot of this robin for Bev, but my model wouldn’t cooperate.



I didn’t see the out of focus branch when I took this image… I really wish it wasn’t there.



Straight from my camera



Just got lucky with this one…



Thank you for looking.

[payn817]

nice assortment. The in flight shots are terrific, and the rate at which you are improving amazes me.

Around here robins always stay on the ground

[Knight]

I cant get over how many Cardinal shots your getting , all keepers

[Copy_Kot]

Thank you Payn for the nice complament, I really appreciate it. If there wasn't any snow, I'm sure the robins would be on the ground here too.

And thank you Knight. I get a lot of cardinals in my backyard, but I think I found the cardinal motherland this week. The berries in the images must be attracting them from quite a distance. I’m not sure if these are of the same female, there were a lot of them flying around…



This one didn’t come out as well as I had hoped, I kept it because of the plumpness factor.



And… there was one female there that was almost completely gray, I wish I could have gotten an image of her.

edit- a couple of more fluff balls from today. The waxwings are very hard to get close too (huge crop), they take off just from the sound of the shutter.

[Loupey]

Great images. I really like the lighting in the first cardinal of the first post. And excellent branch placement and composition on the one above the waxwing.

[Copy_Kot]

Thank you Loupey.

[terryger]

your work gets better and better everytime you post!:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Copy_Kot]

Thank you Terryger, that really is a big complement and I appreciate it.